# Corrupt Database

Fozzie (derbysa@server.uwindsor.ca)
Mon, 16 Sep 1996 07:52:02 PDT

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    	Good Morning,

      Sometime on Sunday morning, the MOO of my university crashed; upon
    restart a cryptic message was left in the MOOs log.  Here is what it told
    me:

    <Normal Database Loading Spam>
    Sep 15 02:43:13: LOADING: Reading 9476 MOO programs...
    Sep 15 02:43:28: LOADING: Finished reading 5000 programs...
    Sep 15 02:43:42: *** PARSER: Line 10:  parse error
    Sep 15 02:43:42: *** DB_READ: Unparsable program #6885:0, i = 9427.
    Sep 15 02:43:42: *** Cannot parse database file!

      My question is, what would cause some section of verb code to become
    corrupt?  I mean, verbs are only stored if they are compilable, so how
    could it happen that a saved version of code would become corrupt.  I'm
    to assume that editing the DB by hand to maliciously corrupt it, is out
    of the question, since I can not even load the DB to fix it.
      Any help that you can offer in decyphering this is appreciated.

      Oh, BTW, this question is in reference to LambdaMOO server Version
    1.7.9p2 (Ya some people are still using it ... :)  )

    	Exhaustedly,

    		Eric Derbyshire (in charge of fixing this mess)